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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Rowe given all the way to their first destination?
(a) Water.
(b) Medical care.
(c) Food.
(d) Rest.
2. Rowe is told that even what will not prompt his release?
(a) His acceptance of Vietcong beliefs.
(b) His money.
(c) His threats.
(d) The end of the war.
3. How does Rowe find that he is about to be moved to "the Zone" where he would do as commanded or die?
(a) Occasionally he has the opportunity to go through papers in the camp.
(b) One of the Vietcong has decided to try to help him.
(c) He is told by the camp commander.
(d) He overhears his captors talking.
4. Why does Rowe want the Vietcong prisoners to be sentenced to this?
(a) So the Vietcong will see the power of the U.S.
(b) So he can see some retaliation being taken out on the Vietcong.
(c) So the Vietcong do not feel the need to execute American prisoners in retaliation.
(d) So the Vietcong will consider letting him go.
5. Why do the men buy raw brown sugar?
(a) It tastes good.
(b) It is cheap.
(c) It is not considered food.
(d) It is easy to come by.
6. With his first money, what does Rowe buy?
(a) More nets and sets.
(b) Sugar and tea.
(c) Sugar and salt.
(d) Garlic and pepper.
7. How does Rowe feel after eating this meal?
(a) Tired.
(b) Full.
(c) Ill.
(d) Happy.
8. On September 14, what happens to Rowe?
(a) He is rescued.
(b) He is sent to a new camp.
(c) He is taken on a tour of the region.
(d) He becomes ill.
9. At first, what do these men plan to do to Rowe?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Save him.
(c) Ignore him.
(d) Capture him.
10. When Rowe is asked by a news reporter if he'd been beaten, he says that he wasn't "mistreated severely" and then says that he can't go into it further. Why?
(a) Because he did not want to upset the news reporter.
(b) Because he is embarrassed about his treatment.
(c) Because of the possibility of retaliation on other POWs.
(d) Because he is not sure what happened to him.
11. Rowe hastily comes up with a cover story, saying that he'd been trying to find better fishing grounds and that he'd set lines along the way. What is enough to plant doubt that Rowe is trying to escape?
(a) The presence of lines, though someone else's.
(b) His fluent Vietnamese.
(c) The lines he has in his hands.
(d) The way in which he tells the story.
12. Where is Rowe's mother?
(a) In the car.
(b) With his father.
(c) At church.
(d) Inside the house.
13. What will be sold by the guards?
(a) The excess meat hunted by the men.
(b) The excess food stolen by the men.
(c) The excess vegetables grown by the men.
(d) The excess fish caught by the men.
14. He says that the men aboard the chopper are kept busy during that initial ride, doing what?
(a) Listening to him.
(b) Opening cans of c-rations for Rowe.
(c) Talking to him.
(d) Answering his questions.
15. When Rowe is some distance from camp, he encounters whom?
(a) The U.S. Army.
(b) Vietnamese civilians.
(c) The enemy.
(d) His own guards.
Short Answer Questions
1. Rowe is continually pressed to do what?
2. What happens when Rowe is moved to another base?
3. Rowe decides again to try an escape and plans to go in what?
4. What does he name them?
5. What will be used in this selling process?
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